Chris Vannoy

Yep. That’s a favorite.

Well. That’s most unfortunate.

Yeah. Seems good at getting the best out of people.

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

I mean, maybe?

If they created a set list just for me, I don’t know that it would have been very different.

I got “Gave Up” and “Mr. Self-Destruct” - two of my tippy-top favorites.

And I wept almost the whole way through.

As an aside:

More than once in my career, I wore a NIN shirt to some meeting and got astonished questions. My dad energy is too much these days.

Little do they know the crap I was into in the mid to late 90s.

Holler if you wanna talk Wax Trax sometime. :)

A stage lit in red lighting before a Nine Inch Nails concert in Columbus, OH. Lots of empty seats, but we’re still an hour or so until the show.

Your author, a middle aged white guy in glasses, in front a stage lit in red before a Nine Inch Nails concert in Columbus, OH. He’s wearing a NIN shirt from their aborted 2020 North American Tour.

Nine Inch Nails got me through college and a bit of high school.

I’ve never seen them live. I’ve bought bootlegs from college bookstores, collected halos, had a shirt in my closet my entire adult life.

Have never seen them in person. It was always something I could never have.

Until tonight.

I need to find a new therapist after spending the last five years with the same one (she’s closing her practice).

Doing intro chats with a bunch of possible therapists this week, and it’s exhausting to think through restarting this sort of relationship.

Dave Poe, long-time sports editor, dies at 71 PARKERSBURG — Dave Poe, a long-time sports editor for The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, passed away on Sunday. Poe, 71, covered sports and news for nearly four decades before retiring in November 201...

My first boss. Probably my best boss. And the finest sports writer I ever knew.

Rest in Peace, Dave.

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“That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” - Mission of Burma

Pretty Hate Machine - Broken - The Downward Spiral

OK Computer - Kid A - Amnesiac

Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Peppers

Document - Green - Out of Time

(And if you can swap Broken for The Fragile if you want to ignore EPs)

Growing up: The Little Kanawha River (by way of Spring Creek)

These days: The White River

The healthcare marketplace is so weird, that it was more cost effective to explore other options.

And now, to get health insurance, I’m a part-time “research assistant” (fill out a few surveys a year?) for some data company.

So I can get on their insurance plan …

So damn weird.

Penn State Head Coach Neal Brown

Yup! Go you!

A red and white work by Alma Thomas

An Alma Thomas work with a black circle surrounded by bands of color representing a solar eclipse

Newfields (aka The Indianapolis Museum of Art) had a retrospective of her work recently.

Two of my favorites.

I can only imagine.

Hang in there.

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This Sonder collapse is the sort of stuff my fledgling little business helps head off.

There was likely some very over-their-heads product and engineering folks involved in this and I feel for them.

Wish I could have helped.

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Grey sky. Grey field. Welcome to EMU.

Reporting live: The field matches the sky almost perfectly.

Halftime at #TheFactory

Falcons up 14-10.

Shame I want to get back to Indy before too late tonight - this has been fun!

The water tower at Western Kentucky University. Featuring their mascot - whatever that thing is.

Beer can showing an oddly shaped water tower.

I _think_ I saw that on the drive in.

Based on the branded beer.

Still more fond of WKU’s water tower, tho.

The author wearing a green EMU hat with the press box behind him

Flag bearers for the EMU band saying EEEEEEEEE

Wide view of Cosby Field at EMU.

Hiya from Ypsilanti for Stop 43 in my quest to see a game at every FBS college.

Will try to channel my inner @sickoscommittee.org and last longer than a quarter.

First: The Grass Roots
Best: The Hives
Last: Aimee Mann / Jonathan Coulton

I wrote about this bullshit once already and I don’t feel like editing it to say that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, either.

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Probably!

So far today:

- Meal planned and groceries
- Replaced the flow valve in the kids’ toilet (daughter helped)
- Making sheet pan pizza
- Been vibe coding a new version of an app I built nearly a decade ago

Been a fun day.

Longer on this here: getaxiomatic.com/show-and-tel...

Results: Highly effective at discovering how well someone works in a team. My hiring mistakes came from overruling this step for "impressive" work history.
Code is worthless if it can't be understood and explained. People are always the hard part. 🧵

Tradeoffs: Works best with folks who have code to show (side projects, open source). Less effective for people stuck in closed-source/NDA situations. It's "squishy" - no clear pass/fail like traditional tests.

This lets you check for understanding, decision-making rationale, and how they react to feedback. I've successfully done this with whole teams - great for seeing collaboration skills in action.

You can standardize with rubrics or go with vibes. Both work.